CVE-2026-72455

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix uninitialised pointer passed to auditloguntrustedstring Commit 4a134723f9f1 "apparmor: move check for aanull file to cover all cases" intrdouced a small bug, where pathname may pass a potentially uninitialized name ...

Parents take on Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap in 3,000 youth safety lawsuits

A group of big tech firms is fighting to stop roughly 3,000 youth safety lawsuits from moving forward, and they just lost a critical procedural battle in court. The lawsuits, brought by attorneys general and families, allege that Meta, Google, ByteDance's TikTok, and Snap knew their products were...

CVE-2026-68160

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds read on snaptrace in cephhandlecaps cephhandlecaps reads snaptracelen from the wire-format cephmdscaps header and uses it unconditionally to build a fake end pointer snaptrace + snaptracelen that ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68160

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds read on snaptrace in cephhandlecaps cephhandlecaps reads snaptracelen from the wire-format cephmdscaps header and uses it unconditionally to build a fake end pointer snaptrace + snaptracelen that ...

CVE-2026-68160

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds read on snaptrace in cephhandlecaps cephhandlecaps reads snaptracelen from the wire-format cephmdscaps header and uses it unconditionally to build a fake end pointer snaptrace + snaptracelen that ...

EUVD-2026-55546

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix pre-auth out-of-bounds read on snaptrace in cephhandlecaps cephhandlecaps reads snaptracelen from the wire-format cephmdscaps header and uses it unconditionally to build a fake end pointer snaptrace + snaptracelen that ...

CVE-2026-68160

Summary: CVE-2026-68160 is a pre-auth, out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s Ceph code path (ceph_handle_caps) caused by using attacker-controlled snap_trace_len to compute an end pointer without proper bounds checks. The issue can lead to out-of-bounds reads of encoded snap data...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-8933

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure...

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 CVSS score: 7.8,...

New Ubuntu Desktop Vulnerability Turns Local Access Into Root Control

A vulnerability in snap-confine lets an unprivileged user gain root access on affected Ubuntu Desktop systems. Install the latest snapd update to fix the issue...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

USN-8579-1 snapd vulnerabilities

James Henstridge discovered that snapd's default apparmor template did not restrict access to systemd-userdbd varlink interface. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2024-5300 Qualys discovered that snap-confine can be tricked to create...

USN-8579-1: snapd vulnerabilities

James Henstridge discovered that snapd's default apparmor template did not restrict access to systemd-userdbd varlink interface. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2024-5300 Qualys discovered that snap-confine can be tricked to create...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

EUVD-2026-46262

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-8933 snap-confine Local Privilege Escalation via Capabilities Misconfiguration or Flaw in Execution Environment Setup

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-8933 snap-confine Local Privilege Escalation via Capabilities Misconfiguration or Flaw in Execution Environment Setup

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation affecting snap-confine (used by Canonical snapd) configured with set-capabilities. The flaw lies in how privilege boundaries/security sandboxes are initialized when running under limited ambient capabilities, allowing an unprivileged local user to bypass restrictions ...

CVE-2026-15226 snapd snap-confine Sandbox Confinement Bypass via Omission of setuid Restriction in Seccomp Templates

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

CVE-2026-15226

Canonically reported vulnerability CVE-2026-15226 affects Canonical snapd’s sandboxed environment (snap-confine). The issue: default seccomp templates did not filter or reject operations to create/manipulate file execution flags with set-user-id attributes, allowing a strictly confined snap to co...